Richard Bradley is a long-time maker of "sparkly things". He's always had a fascination, as far back as anyone can remember, with jewelry and all things that sparkle and shine. In his teenage years he started collecting vintage costume jewelry and his natural inclination was to explore how and where such beautiful objects were made. Upon graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Richard began a lengthy career as a jewelry designer/maker. But lately he's been creating automata sculptures that, although not wearable, still reflect his inclination toward embellishment, color and sparkle. Not unlike the jewelry he's made, his sculptural objects are small and precious and because he likes his pieces to interact with the body, they often include hand operated mechanical elements. Most of these works are joyful little monuments to fleeting thoughts and tantrums or elaborate reliquaries which hold various tokens of his life’s triumphs and traumas. With his latest body of work he expresses some of the secret thoughts, personal stories and hidden signals that can be triggered by precious. inanimate possessions.